Urban Re:Vision has announced winners for a design competition for an urban block of Dallas. The program challenges competitors to create a zero net energy, mixed use development that will house and provide for about 900 people. Among the top 3 is the local firm of David Baker + Partners, with whom Design Ecology is currently working on 22 units for Habitat Humanity in Oakland. Entries by LITTLE and MOOV/ATELIER DATA also made the top list. A developer for the site is already in place and participated in the judging process, increasing the potential for realization of the project.

Re:Vision will be posting complete winning entries soon, and have some images up already: http://www.urbanrevision.com/ReVision-DALLAS-Results. It will be interesting to see how the difficult and leading edge environmental design and self-sufficient resource systems program is met with these projects — as well as to see whether they pursue a modern approach such as DB+P’s reflective glass moves or the more european gestaldt of the MOOV/Atelier Data submittal. 

In either case, it appears alternative energy, on-site food production, and vegetated architectural systems are in Dallas’ future downtown plan.

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